Promotion of Nurses' Lower Extremity Health by Foot(at)Work Intervention

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Foot Deformities; Lower Extremity Problem
• Interventions: Behavioral: Foot(at)Work intervention

• Registration Number: NCT06555198
• Lead Sponsor: University of Turku

Brief Summary

The quasiexperimental study aims to analyse the effecs of Foot(at)Work intervention on nurses' lower extremity health. The Foot(at)Work intervention is in electronic format consisting of 5 themes. The idea is that the participants familiarizes with the foot health -related content. The primary outcome is knowledge about lower extremity self-care. Secondary outcomes are work well-being, lower extremity health and musculoskeletal health. The outcomes are measured before the intervention (M0), after the intervention (M1), one month after the intervention (M2), six months after the intervention (M3) and 12 months after the intervention (M4).

The purpose of the Foot(at)Work intervention is to support nurses ability to self-care their lower extremities. The intervention consists of text, videos, and pictures that educate nurses to self-care their lower extremities and to select proper footwear.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-08
• Study First Submitted: 2024-08-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-08-12
• Study First Posted: 2024-08-15
• Study Start: 2024-10-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-25
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-30
• Primary Completion: 2025-10
• Study Completion: 2025-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

• Registered nurse
• Working in the specialized health care in surgical or internal medicine wards of one certain hospital

Exclusion Criteria

• Nursing students

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Foot(at)Work intervention	Foot(at)Work intervention will be offered to participant sin the intervention group. The Foot(at)Work intervention lasts for 5 weeks. The intervention is constructed on electronic learning environment consisting of 5 themes illustrating self-care activities for common foot problems among nursing professionals. The idea of self-directed learning is to support nurses competence to self-care their lower extremities and thus, promote their work wellbeing in clinical nursing environments.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge of lower extremity self-care	before intervenion, right after the intervention, one, six and 12 months after the intervention	Knowledge will be measured with self-administered questionnaira that contains 20 items (response options yes-no) about self-care for lower extremity problems.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Musculoskeletal health	before intervenion, right after the intervention, one, six and 12 months after the intervention	Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire will be used as self-report measure to assess the impact of a musculoskeletal condition on an individual's functioning and on the impact of the condition on daily activities.
Self-assessed foot health	before intervenion, right after the intervention, one, six and 12 months after the intervention	Self-Administered Foot Health Assessment Instrument (S-FHAI) will measure subjective self-assessment measure of current foot health with 22 items. Four subcategories were included: skin health (12 items), nail health (4 items), foot structure (5 items), and foot pain (1 item).
Self-perceived work ability	before intervenion, right after the intervention, one, six and 12 months after the intervention	Work ability index: one question where respondent indicates the level of perceived current work ability. Range 1-10 where 1 indicates not capable of working - 10 best possible work ability.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Turku; 🇫🇮 Turku, Varsinais-Suomi, Finland